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Over Carnival weekend, as families crowded into Maracaibo’s small, air-conditioned shops, gunmen got off their motorbikes, entered a butcher’s shop, and without uttering a word, indiscriminately fired into the holiday crowd, wounding three people.
Less than two hours later, the violent scene played out again, this time in a small supermarket. The shooters left five bystanders wounded.
The two near-simultaneous attacks, just seven kilometers apart, were both motivated by extortion but had nothing to do with each other.
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